Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Start ignoring people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.

Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.

You can’t translate somethingthat was never in a languagein the first place.

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Reality TV's pretty tricky for me. I don't really watch anything like that, because I think it's brain-sucking.

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.